Mahar Shwe Thein Daw Pagoda
| Mahar Shwe Thein Daw Pagoda | |
|---|---|
 Mahar Shwe Thein Daw Pagoda | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Theravada Buddhism |
| Location | |
| Location | Kyaukse, Mandalay Region |
| Country | Myanmar |
  Shown within Myanmar | |
| Geographic coordinates | 21°38′41.78″N 96°7′51.07″E / 21.6449389°N 96.1308528°E |
| Architecture | |
| Founder | Anawrahta |
| Groundbreaking | 11th century |
Mahar Shwe Thein Daw Pagoda (Burmese: မဟာရွှေသိမ်တော်ဘုရား, also known as Shwe Thein Daw) is a Buddhist temple in Thin Taung Gyi village, about two miles north of Kyaukse, Mandalay Region, Myanmar. The Mahar Shwe Thein Daw Buddha image is depicted in this temple, and has long been believed to grant the wishes of its worshippers.[1][2][3] Students in near regions pray at this pagoda for blessings before their exams.[4]
History[edit]
Mahar Shwe Thein Taw Pagoda was built by King Anawrahta of Pagan and Shin Arahan set the consecrated ground for the pagoda. The pagoda was originally named Shwe Thein Daw by Anawrahta, but the board of pagoda trustees renamed it to Mahar Shwe Thein Daw. The pagoda used to have an inscription, but the contents of the inscription are no longer known because the inscription was lost when Prime Minister U Nu was in power.[5]
Although Mahar Shwe Thein Daw Pagoda has been worshiped for generations after Anawrahta, some historians say that the pagoda was covered with bushes about 100 years ago due to the negligence of the villagers. During that time an epidemic hit the village, and those who had fled the village cleared the bushes near the pagoda. Legend says that the clearing of the pagoda keeps the local village clear of epidemics.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ "Parents flock to ancient pagoda in Mandalay region for exam success". Myanmar Mix. 3 March 2020.
- ^ "ကျောက်ဆည်မြို့နယ်၊ မဟာရွှေသိမ်တော်ဘုရားသို့ တက္ကသိုလ်ဝင်တန်းစာမေးပွဲမဖြေမီ ရက်ပိုင်းအတွင်း နေ့စဉ်လူထောင်ချီ လာရောက်ပြီး အဓိဋ္ဌာန်ပြု ဆုတောင်းမှုများ ပြုလုပ်နေ". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 4 March 2019.
- ^ "ကျောက်ဆည်မြို့နယ်၊ မဟာရွှေသိမ်တော်ဘုရားသို့ တက္ကသိုလ်ဝင်တန်း စာမေးပွဲမဖြေမီ ရက်ပိုင်းအတွင်း မြန်မာပြည်အနှံ့အပြားမှ လာရောက်ကြပြီး နေ့စဉ်လူဦးရေ တစ်သောင်းကျော် လာရောက်အဓိဋ္ဌာန်ပြု ဆုတောင်းမှုများ ပြုလုပ်နေ". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 2 March 2020.
- ^ "ကျောက်ဆည်ရွှေသိမ်တော်တွင် တက္ကသိုလ်ဝင်တန်းစာမေးပွဲအတွက်ဆုတောင်းသူ နှစ်ဆခန့်မြင့်တက်". The Voice Weekly (in Burmese). 8 March 2020.
- ^ "ေရႊသိမ္ေတာ္က ထြန္းကားလာတဲ့ ကန္ေတာ့ပြဲဓေလ့". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 12 September 2019.
- ^ "ရွှေသိမ်တော်ဘုရားဝယ် အဓိဋ္ဌာန်ဆုတောင်းကြမယ်". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 29 June 2016.